Term first coined by Diffie and Hellman in 1976, refers to a function that is easy to compute forwards, yet very difficult to invert, ie compute backwards. Large integer multiplication/factorization serves this purpose for RSA.
see link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_function
Monday, 8 October 2007
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